Analysis of A Coloured Print by Shokei
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
It winds along the face of a cliff
This path which I long to explore,
And over it dashes a waterfall,
And the air is full of the roar
And the thunderous voice of waters which sweep
In a silver torrent over some steep.
It clears the path with a mighty bound
And tumbles below and away,
And the trees and the bushes which grow in the rocks
Are wet with its jewelled spray;
The air is misty and heavy with sound,
And small, wet wildflowers star the ground.
Oh! The dampness is very good to smell,
And the path is soft to tread,
And beyond the fall it winds up and on,
While little streamlets thread
Their own meandering way down the hill
Each singing its own little song, until
I forget that 't is only a pictured path,
And I hear the water and wind,
And look through the mist, and strain my eyes
To see what there is behind;
For it must lead to a happy land,
This little path by a waterfall spanned.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101101 11111101 010110010 00111101 00100111011 0010101011 110110101 01001001 001001011001 111111 0111001011 0111101 1010110111 0011111 0010111101 11011 1101001101 1101110101 101111100101 01101001 011010111 1111101 111110101 110110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 905 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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